He has pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of bank and tax fraud and failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.

Ellis also approved the special counsel's request to offer immunity to five witnesses who are expected to testify at Manafort's trial.

Ellis will begin meeting jurors this week as scheduled. "I'm not in the theater business".

Manafort is facing charges related to alleged financial crime from before he joined the Trump campaign. The Kremlin denies election interference and Trump denies collusion.

Defense lawyers argued that they need additional time to review more than 120,000 pages of documents recently provided by the government.

Mueller's team, represented by Greg Andres at the hearing, had indicated that the only mention of the Trump campaign would be in the context of those particular loans, which Andres said would take a small part of the trial. Alex Van der Zwaan, a lawyer who once worked closely with Manafort and Gates, has also pleaded guilty and has been sentenced.

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She said that after a while she felt there was nothing left to do but give up her fight and let go, allowing God to take her. There were life jackets on the boat, but Coleman said the captain told them they didnt need to use them.

The initial phase of jury selection is still set to get underway this week in Alexandria, just outside Washington, D.C., but Manafort's trial itself now isn't scheduled to begin until next week, on July 31.

Manafort would like Ellis, the judge, to ask jurors where they get their news, the extent of their involvement in politics and whether they voted in the 2016 election.

According to the government, the head of that bank, former Trump Campaign economic adviser Stephen Calk, was interested in getting a position within the Trump Administration. The Mueller indictment contains an email chain between Laporta and others regarding Manafort's "Int'l Income Question".

Mueller's team has outlined an extensive list of evidence to present at the Virginia trial, submitting a 21-page list detailing more than 400 exhibits that include scores of bank records, emails and photographs, among other documents.

In a filing last week, attorneys with the special counsel's office said the witnesses must remain confidential because they would be subject to "undue harassment" if their identities were revealed.

The indictment says Manafort and business associate Rick Gates passed money they received from Ukraine through foreign bank accounts to hide it from the Internal Revenue Service.

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The Balochistan bombing targeted the convoy of Deputy Inspector General of Police Abdul Razzaq Cheema near a polling station. The so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the group's AMAQ news agency .

Antonov said it's important to "deal with the results" of the leaders' first summit before jumping too fast into a new one. In exchange, he said , Russian authorities could interview several Americans the Kremlin accuses of unspecified crimes.

The military has ruled Pakistan through various coups for almost half of the country's history since independence in 1947. The PPP managed to maintain its stronghold in the Sindh Assembly and should lead the provincial government.

Giuliani contested Davis's interpretation and released the Trump team's version of the transcript, which contradicts Davis. Trump can then be heard saying the word "cash" but because of the muddled audio, it is unclear what precedes it.

In response, government regulators have blocked a number of Chinese acquisition deals involving American firms this year. U.S. tariff hikes targeting Chinese goods were based on Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, its domestic trade law.

Putin in a follow-up press conference. "NATO will remain an indispensable pillar of American national security", he said. Many Republicans have said they were disappointed in the one-on-one meeting between the two leaders, followed by Mr.

Then he flirted with contention at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide but missed the cut at Shinnecock Hills. That broke a tie of five players at six-under, the whole field having come back to him during his relentless run of pars.

He tweeted: "I had a GREAT meeting with Putin and the Fake News used every bit of their energy to try and disparage it". House committee staffer Kyle Parker helped draft sanctions against Russians suspected of human rights violations.

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